DUBAI Diaries يوميات دبي

We arrived DUBAI at 7am. Temperature was around 16-18degree celcius. We had a stay at Citymax Bur Dubai. It's is one of the finest hotel with great Indian touch. Claypot restaurant in Citymax serves very delicious indian food. Live music is there everyday.

We visited La Mer Beach and Souk Medinat Jumeirah on first day. Abra Boat ride at Medinat Jumeirah is a must do thing. It is around for 30 minutes. It takes you through the Souk Medinat Jumeirah with some nice view of Burj Al Arab.

Abra Ride:₹3000 for 2 people

In addition to this you can taste variety of street food, visit cafes and restaurants and do street shopping at Medinat Jumeirah.

La Mer beach is one the best happening places in Dubai. It is surrounded by many good restaurants, shops and many more to explore.

We had lunch at Goan Shack and

dinner at Kaftan - Turkish Restaurant.

We had a breakfast at Citymax Cafe. Then we went to Dubai Frame.

You can buy tickets at the counter near Dubai frame. It's ₹900 per person.

What to see- First two floors in Dubai frame explain the past Dubai, present Dubai and the future Dubai. It's very beautifully explained with some videos. Top floor is a view deck from which you can see old and new Dubai. You can do Skywalk at 150m height.

It also explains vision for Dubai.

After Dubai Frame we went to Dubai Mall- the world's biggest mall. We did some shopping at Dubai Mall. You can find 1200+ international brands at Dubai Mall.

Then we returned to hotel and had lunch. We had Seafood Pasta at Citymax Cafe.

Around 3pm we left for desert safari. It takes around 1 1/2 hour to reach the desert area towards Sharjah. We had a coach pickup. After reaching there Land Cruiser picked us and took us for a desert safari. It was an amazing experience and thrilling one.

After having a safari for around 15minutes we reached the desert camp. We also experienced Quad Biking for 20 min. Cost was around ₹2500.

In desert camp we had a coffee, some sweets and a welcome drink. Around 7pm Belly Dance started. It was around 20min. Then we had a Arabic dinner with live Tambora Show and Fire Show. We returned to hotel around 10pm.

On this day we visited Ferrari world and Shaikh Zayed Mosque or The Grand Mosque Abu Dhabi. We also visited some local date markets in Abu Dhabi.

We had done booking through Headout and got Rayna Tours as the tour operator for Abu Dhabi tour.

Rayna Tours picked us from Citymax around 9am. It took 2 hours to reach Abu Dhabi.

Firstly we visited a meusuem in Abu Dhabi where we saw some ancient collections of Royal Families from Abu Dhabi.

Then we visited The Grand Mosque of Abu Dhabi. It takes around one hour to see main parts of the mosque. Such a beautiful place with the evidence of great architecture.

Then we headed towards some palaces of royal families from Abu Dhabi. We also visited a date market. Purchased Date Chocolates from this market. There are huge variety of dates and chocolates. The price is very very cheap here.

Then we visited Ferrari world theme park. We were there for almost 5hours. You must do following rides at Ferrari world - World's fastest rollar coaster, Flying Aces, Turbo track and some 3D rides.

Around 8pm we started our journey back to DUBAI.

On the last day we spent morning at Jumeirah Public Beach.

We had lunch at Business Bay near hotel Taj. You will find many Indian restaurants in this area.

We had a return flight at 4pm.

It was a very unique experience in Dubai and surely I will visit Dubai once again in future.

There are many other things to do like-

Global Village

Miracle Garden

Dubai Safari

Sky Diving

Ski Dubai

Adventure waterpark

and much more.......